Re: [ubuntu-uk] External hard disks and backup strategies
I use Simple Backup to do automated daily backups to an external USB drive. The drive is Fat32 formatted so if anything goes wrong with my Ubuntu installation I can easily restore my home folder. It seems to work well. Stuart -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Flynn Sent: 18 September 2007 22:54 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] External hard disks and backup strategies On 18/09/2007, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the other hand, a plain-old USB hard disk seems the simpler option. I would naively assume that as USB is now well-proven technology, these would work just fine with Ubuntu, but is that the case? How easy would it be to automate backups to such a disk? Would it mount with a persistent mount point, or would it change with every unplug or system reboot? Then there is the question of what backup strategy I should actually use. I was assuming that an automated rsync every week would be the easiest, but perhaps there are other possibilities? Something automated, once configured, without requiring user intervention is an absolute must: the whole point of doing backups is that I don't have to remember to do it! Typing as someone who is about to precisely the same thing I too would be most interested in the experiences of those who have walked this road already... Actually, that reminds me that I need to order the USB hard-drive enclosure that I promised myself least week... -- Steve When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? "WHSmiths Watch"
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Howard Berry Sent: 22 June 2007 10:40 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? "WHSmiths Watch" Hello everyone, As the is a nation wide listing, I wondered if my experience was replicated in the rest of the country. The plethora of "buy new cool Vista magazines" seems to elbowing the three Linux magazines out of existence in Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth. My main concern is that my favourite magazine "Linux User and Developer", to which I have subscribed for a couple of years, seems to have gone very ominously silent: no replies to emails, no replies to telephone messages. The web site is still functioning although cobwebs seem to be gathering on it. Is it me that they don't like, or have they gone belly down?? -- Regard, Howard Supporting Open Source Software. http://www.fsf.org/ And Open Standards http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ I have had a similar experience. Being new to Ubuntu I thought I would buy a Linux magazine or two. I couldn't find a trace of any Linux magazine in central Edinburgh. I know I have seen a couple on newsstands in the past. Incidentally, I noticed that amazon.co.uk has many books about Ubuntu and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good beginner's title. Stuart -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click includes Ubuntu
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of alan c
Sent: 10 June 2007 23:03
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click includes Ubuntu
The recent weekend TV program of BBC Click was devoted to Open source,
Ubuntu, an an interview with Mark Shuttleworth.
I can manage to get it to play using Real player, but I cannot think
of how to capture the stream to view it later.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/
('watch now')
Any ideas please?
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alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391
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I found this website that mentions a mozilla add-on that is meant to allow
the downloading of a video being watched -
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
I haven't had a chance to test it yet though.
Stuart
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